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Nucleus Capital
Venture capital · Berlin, Germany · Europe
Nucleus Capital is a first-check investor that backs technical teams at the earliest stage. It makes checks of up to €1.0M, leading or co-leading, and supports scientific ventures with a concentrated portfolio active in Europe and the US.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsdeep techprogrammable biologyfood technologyindustrial technologyfrontier techsustainability
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Or find every investor that fitsNucleus Capital lists 18 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (36%), Healthcare & Biotech (19%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (19%). 58% of its companies are based in Germany. It invests most often alongside Founders Factory, Possible Ventures and Robin Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Nucleus Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Nucleus Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 6 companies; its own site lists 18. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 17% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 4 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 46th | 18 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 80th | 11% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 65th | 36% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 36% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 19% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 19% | 7% |
| Food & Agriculture | 7% | 3% |
| Climate & Energy | 7% | 1% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 7% | 1% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 3% | 6% |
| Education | 3% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Founders Factory | 3 |
| Possible Ventures | 3 |
| Robin Capital | 3 |
| Draper Associates | 2 |
| Faber | 2 |
| Fifty Years | 2 |
| First Momentum | 2 |
| Juniper | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers18100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Founders Factory
Compare Nucleus Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Nucleus Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Nov 2026 | Series A | |
| 28 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 3 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 3 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 15 Dec 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Nucleus Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Nucleus Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
18 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apoha teaches machines to understand matter for applications in pharma, biotech, food, and beverages | Healthcare & BiotechFood & Agriculture | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Atmio measures, manages, and reports methane emissions for gas infrastructure companies. | E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| AtmoCooling develops and implements large-scale microclimate cooling technology for various industries such as agriculture, energy, and infrastructure. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Batch Robotics builds a robot that can automate manufacturing tasks without needing to be programmed for each new part variant | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Bindbridge discovers and designs molecular glues using AI to develop safer, more effective crop protection with novel mode of action against weeds and crop diseases. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Biomia rationally engineers nature-inspired novel small molecule therapeutics to treat CNS disorders. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Brineworks develops and operates ultra low-cost Direct Air Capture technology to remove carbon dioxide from the air | Climate & EnergyIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Concert Bio develops microbial products to help greenhouse growers improve plant yields | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Cultzyme develops intelligent bioprocessing technology to improve biomanufacturing | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides financing and insurance services to agricultural businesses. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Endolith uses biology and machine learning to recover copper and other critical minerals from ore that conventional mining leaves behind. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company builds backend software that lets manufacturers unlock what their robots are truly capable of | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Biographica is a biotechnology company that designs and develops better plant traits using AI and rapid experimentation. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Planet A Foods supplies food ingredient alternatives for climate-threatened and highly regulated raw materials using a fermentation platform. | Food & AgricultureClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Quint Computing builds fault-tolerant quantum computers with efficiency and speed to unlock industrial impact. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| ScienceMachine automates workflows for bioanalytical labs using AI | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Telura unlocks geothermal energy at scale to supply clean, emission-free energy | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Dec 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Yuri develops research hardware and mission solutions that enable scientists and life-science companies to investigate biology under altered-gravity conditions. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- nucleus-capital.com
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 9 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 18
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